Honour and vertue, triumphing over the grave Exemplified in a faire devout life, and death, adorned with the surviving perfections of Edward Lord Stafford, lately deceased; the last baron of that illustrious family: which honour in him ended with as great lustre as the sunne sets within a serene skye. A treatise so written, that it is as well applicative to all of noble extraction, as to him, and wherein are handled all the requisites of honour, together with the greatest morall, and divine vertues, and commended to the practise of the noble prudent reader. By Anth. Stafford his most humble kinsman. This worke is much embelish'd by the addition of many most elegant elegies penned by the most accute wits of these times.

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Honour and vertue, triumphing over the grave Exemplified in a faire devout life, and death, adorned with the surviving perfections of Edward Lord Stafford, lately deceased; the last baron of that illustrious family: which honour in him ended with as great lustre as the sunne sets within a serene skye. A treatise so written, that it is as well applicative to all of noble extraction, as to him, and wherein are handled all the requisites of honour, together with the greatest morall, and divine vertues, and commended to the practise of the noble prudent reader. By Anth. Stafford his most humble kinsman. This worke is much embelish'd by the addition of many most elegant elegies penned by the most accute wits of these times.

Author

Stafford, Anthony.

Publication

London :: Printed by J. Okes [and Thomas Cotes?], for Henry Seile at the Tigres Head in Fleet-street, over against St. Dunstans Church,

1640.

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Stafford, Henry Stafford, -- Baron, 1621-1637.

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"Honour and vertue, triumphing over the grave Exemplified in a faire devout life, and death, adorned with the surviving perfections of Edward Lord Stafford, lately deceased; the last baron of that illustrious family: which honour in him ended with as great lustre as the sunne sets within a serene skye. A treatise so written, that it is as well applicative to all of noble extraction, as to him, and wherein are handled all the requisites of honour, together with the greatest morall, and divine vertues, and commended to the practise of the noble prudent reader. By Anth. Stafford his most humble kinsman. This worke is much embelish'd by the addition of many most elegant elegies penned by the most accute wits of these times." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A12817.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 3, 2024. content_copy

Contents

• title page
• To my much honour'd Lord, Thomas Lord Howard, chief of the Howards, Earle of Arundell and Surrey, Earle Marshall of England, Knight of the most Noble Order of the Garter, and one of his Majesties most Honourable Privy Councell, &c.
• To the Vertuous, and excellent Lady, the Countesse of Arundell.
• To the noble Reader.
• imprimatur
• HONOVR AND VERTUE, Triumphing over the Grave: Or the life of the late Lord Stafford.
• ELEGIES VPON THE DEATH OF THE LAST LORD STAFFORD.
  • poem
  • Vpon the Death of the most hopefull the Lord STAFFORD.
  • On the much lamented Death of the Lord Stafford.
  • On the Death of the Noble Lord STAFFORD.
  • On the Death of the Lord STAFFORD.
  • On the most immature Death of the late young Lord Stafford, the last Baron of that Family.
  • On the Death of the Right Honora∣ble Lord, the Lord STAFFORD, being the last of that Noble Family.
  • Vpon the Death of the young Lord STAFFORD.
  • On the untimely Death of the Lord STAFFORD.
  • Vpon the Death of my Lord STAFFORD, the last Baron of that Ancient Stocke.
  • On the Death of the Right Honora∣ble Edward Lord Stafford.
  • On the deplored Death of Edward Lord Stafford, the last Baron of his Name.
  • To the Memory of the Right Hono∣rable the Lord STAFFORD, the last Baron of his Family.
  • Memoriae Sacrum Nobilissimi Dom. Domini Edwardi Stafford. EDWARDVS NOBILISSIMUS STAFFORDIAE DOMINUS.
  • On the Lord STAFFORD, the last Baron of his Race, who dyed in his None-age.
  • On the much lamented death of the Lord STAFFORD.
  • Sacred to the Memory of the Right Honourable, the Lord STAFFORD being the last Baron of his Name.
  • On the memory of the late Lord STAFFORD.
  • On the death of the Lord STAFFORD.
  • On the Death of the most Noble Lord STAFFORD.
  • Sacred to the Memory of the most Vertuous Edward Lord Stafford, the last Baron of his Illustrious Family.